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Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range



Bastien Nocera wrote:

> Bradley C. Midgley wrote:
> 
> > what is the story with this error? i'm seeing it at dynamic-lib-loadtime
> > in a project i build for work that has lots of dynamically loaded modules.
> >
> > in a web search i see mention of the problem popping up for people all
> > over the place -- one of the first is a message from 1998 in which dan
> > jacobowitz is suggesting that a sign extension is causing an overflow...
> >
> > how is it people are stepping around the problem?
> >
> >
> 
> Check the archives, it's a libc6 bug, I posted a link to a fix. BenC
> still hasn't released a new version of the libc6 with the fix, and that
> simply sucks.
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-06/msg00238.html
> 
> like Gerd said, you can also compile with -fPIC to solve this problem...

This is reversed. -fPIC is required for all code in a shared object. Any 'fix'
in libc is really a workaround.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member



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